Schooling: mass factory of workers
Why if all super minds and geniuses in the past had embraced creativity as the main source of ideas that change the world; the school system does not give it the special place it has?
The answer is simple: The educational system through out the world was specially designed to promote the progress during the industrial revolution; this system needed people with enough amount of knowledge to operate the new machinery, but since nobody knew what a machine was, they needed to train masses in order for them to carry out the job and make the system work successfully. The solution to the problem was simple: Create a place where they could spread the technical knowledge fast, as the objective was to produce as quickly as possible. This was a great idea for the time but the side effects of it are what I find interesting.
In order for them to standardize the knowledge (aligned to their main goal of accumulating wealth), they designed the courses to comply with that system; so they designed standardized tests that approved or disapproved the skills of someone to carry out their tasks; in this area creativity is of little or no value to the system as the goal is just one: produce people that produce.
What we are seeing now in the schooling system is not different. Since young age you send your children to school, to learn standardized information that is going to allow them form an important part of the system of production; the problem is that the subjective skills aren’t taken into consideration because if the test says you fail, you are a bad student, or in other words, you are not what the system wants from you. In this cases many talents that children can explore and develop are lost in the judgment of weather you are good or bad in a certain field.
One thing that everyone admires in children is ironically their creativity; why if we think that way we let (or make) them loose it at a young age? Why do we punish them if they are not interested in certain standardized field? Why don’t we let them explore the world and find what they really want to learn? Some because they are afraid that they don’t get a good job, some others because they ambition seeing their kids as an image of what they could not be, but in the end I’m completely sure that kids aren’t stupid at all; each one of them has special talents that go according their own interests, why don’t we let them find it and explore it to the end, instead of forcing them to go to school so they can be slaves of the state and industries?
We are seeing now the impact of a society that the only cares to produce more, faster, and reach as many people as possible not caring about the side effects of these activities; Degrees are part of the same process; as time goes by degrees serve as an entrance to the industry which is in an uncontrollable growth now. We are destroying ecosystems, stealing land to the poor, polluting our planet with the disposal of products that in 6 months 99% of them are rubbish. And we continue with the same behavior, pursuing always the growth in a planet with limited resources; this is completely foolish. But why can’t we see this?
It is not in the best interests of the system to teach us how the system itself is failing
Education has mined our minds for commodities
Watch these videos and think for yourself:
STATE ONTROLLED CONSCIOUSNESS
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CREATIVITY IN EDUCATION
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